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| Twenty years ago, protests at Twyford Down helped light the fuse of the modern environmental direct action protest movement, bringing Tory plans for "the greatest road-building programme since the Romans" to a halt. Government and councils are now planning to spend billions of pounds on dozens of new roads, and new "growth" funds and devolved spending powers for local councils are threatening to add hundreds more disastrous projects to this list. Of the 45 schemes approved in the budget by the Department for Transport, the £100m Bexhill-Hastings link road (BHLR) is the worst in terms of carbon emissions. Today, hundreds of campaigners, old and new, will gather at Tywford Down to protest against these schemes, and activists will also be staging a camp in the Combe Haven valley outside Hastings to protest against the BHLR. Gabriel Carlyle, Adrian Hopkins, Emily Johns, Andrea Needham, Patrick Nicholson, Abby Nicol Combe Haven Defenders | Twenty years ago, protests at Twyford Down helped light the fuse of the modern environmental direct action protest movement, bringing Tory plans for "the greatest road-building programme since the Romans" to a halt. Government and councils are now planning to spend billions of pounds on dozens of new roads, and new "growth" funds and devolved spending powers for local councils are threatening to add hundreds more disastrous projects to this list. Of the 45 schemes approved in the budget by the Department for Transport, the £100m Bexhill-Hastings link road (BHLR) is the worst in terms of carbon emissions. Today, hundreds of campaigners, old and new, will gather at Tywford Down to protest against these schemes, and activists will also be staging a camp in the Combe Haven valley outside Hastings to protest against the BHLR. Gabriel Carlyle, Adrian Hopkins, Emily Johns, Andrea Needham, Patrick Nicholson, Abby Nicol Combe Haven Defenders |
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